An interesting recent piece in the Chicago Reader details Mother Jones' efforts to create an ongoing reporting collaborative that will collectively cover climate change. Salon, Slate, The Atlantic and others are considering playing along.

It's a noble and worthy effort. In a media world with so few resources and such risk of redundancy, these types of collaborations will help forge a new future for enterprise and investigative reporting.

It’s a future we, in our own ways, are helping shape too. A few examples:

 • Just last week we published our second of two stories about health IT in conjunction with Chuck Lewis’ Investigative Reporting Workshop. The first was about the gold-rush mentality that's been fueled by the $45 billion of stimulus money set aside to promote the transition to electronic medical records.

• A few weeks ago, we worked with the Center for Public Integrity on a story that exposed how the soda lobby stifled a proposed tax on sugary drinks at the federal level and is now fighting similar efforts at the state level.

• Earlier this fall we undertook a distributed-research project with LittleSis.org to map connections between health care lobbyists and members of Congress.

• When we launched the I-Fund (in the summer), we co-published a few pieces with ProPublica about DNA testing (one of the stories detailed how some victims of sexual assault are being asked to pay for their rape kits).

 • And we’ve undertaken a semester-long collaboration with Columbia University’s Stabile Center for Investigative Reporting. Stay tuned -- the first piece is coming soon.

As you can see, our doors are wide open. If you or your organization have an idea about how we can work together, contact me (npenniman [at] huffpostfund [dot] org) or Lawrence Roberts (lroberts [at] huffpostfund [dot] org).